Public value of the humanities / edited by Jonathan Bate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bate, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

WISH list.

WISH list

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) : ilustrations

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2011

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value. At a time when governments are being forced to make swingeing savings in public expenditure, why should they continue to invest public money funding research into ancient Greek tragedy, literary value, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of design? Does such research deliver 'value for money' and 'public benefit'? Such questions have become especially pertinent in the UK in recent years, in the context of the drive by government to instrumentalize research across the disciplines and the prominence of discussions about 'economic impact' and 'knowledge transfer'. In this book a group of distinguished humanities researchers, all working in Britain, but publishing research of international importance, reflect on the public value of their discipline, using particular research projects as case-studies. Their essays are passionate, sometimes polemical, often witty and consistently thought-provoking, covering a range of humanities disciplines from theology to architecture and from media studies to anthropology."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

pt. 1. Learning from the past

part 2. Looking around us

part 3. Informing policy

part 4. Using words, thinking hard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9786613294432

9781849664714

1849664714

9781849660631

1849660638

9781283294430

1283294435

9781849664240

1849664242

OCLC:

754582389